29 years after Chornobyl. Talk by Igor Shevchenko
Date and time:
Tuesday 28 April, 2015
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
In his presentation, Igor Shevchenko, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, will talk about the following issues:
(i) reforms in the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, anti-corruption initiatives and achievements;
(ii) analysis of the situation in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea in view of the loss of access to the natural resources and ecological problems in the temporarily occupied territories;
(iii) Chornobyl tragedy: current state of affairs, agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on the funding of the new confinement.
This event will be held in English and Ukrainian.
FREE
Speaker
Igor Shevchenko
Igor Shevchenko was born in 1971 in Kirovograd. In the same year, the family moved to Kyiv. In 1996 he graduated from Kyiv Institute of International Relations as an international lawyer, consultant, and translator from English. In 2007, he studied at Harvard University in State Government School named by John F. Kennedy which was a part of the World Economic Forum in Davos – training for the members of the Forum of Young Global Leaders “Global Leadership and Governance in the XXI century.” Igor Shevchenko became the first Ukrainian member of the Young Global Leaders Forum at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
